Inside Higher Ed Jerry Brown: Higher Ed Should Be Like Chipotle By Scott Jaschik May 25, 2018 California Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is in his last year in office, and he got in some swipes at higher education during a speech Wednesday at the California Chamber of Commerce. “What I […]
Inside Higher Ed New Accreditation Panel on Nonprofit Conversions By Andrew Kreighbaum May 25, 2018 The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which oversees the country’s higher ed accrediting bodies, voted Thursday to have a subcommittee study oversight questions involved in for-profit colleges seeking to reclassify as nonprofit entities. […]
The Hechinger Report Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them Tech companies are sidestepping the middleman and creating their own courses by JON MARCUS December 18, 2017 Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington. With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education House Republicans Press for Higher-Ed Overhaul in 2018 By Adam Harris and Eric Kelderman DECEMBER 12, 2017 WASHINGTON Updated (12/13/2017, 10:34 a.m.) with results of the Tuesday session of the House committee and comment from Paul Mitchell, a Republican congressman. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives began […]
Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain July 11, 2017 The number and variety of postsecondary credentials, providers and occupations are multiplying rapidly, finds a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, but a lack of good information about college and careers “drives the higher education market toward mediocrity.” […]
Inside Higher Ed Deep Partisan Divide on Higher Education In dramatic shift, more than half of Republicans now say colleges have a negative impact on the U.S., with wealthier, older and more educated Republicans being least positive. By Paul Fain July 11, 2017 Republicans have soured on higher education, with […]
Gallup by Jaimie Francis and Zac Auter There’s a stark misalignment between the talents employers demand and the skills graduates have as they enter the U.S. workforce. And many higher education leaders fail to see it. While 96% of chief academic officers of colleges and universities believe that their institutions […]
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The Federalist/FDRLST Media The most striking thing about fixing American higher education is that the direct costs look surprisingly small. The major obstacles are political, not financial. By Peter W. Wood MAY 15, 2017 How much would it cost to fix American higher education? Think big. In 2015, colleges and […]
LA Times The future of higher education is often the subject of debate; what constitutes a valuable education for students continues to shift as student demographics change. Recently, government regulators and other external stakeholders have been questioning the value of for-profit higher education, specifically, citing for-profit colleges and universities that […]